Food, Mainly. Also, The Writer’s Test of OK-ness.

Good day, my fine friends. This morning finds me full of hope that you woke alert and pain free at a decent hour. I was in bed by eleven and since I forgot to buy wine the new year arrived in a very small, slumberish kind of way.
Yesterday, despite my good intentions, I never had enough free [...]

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A New Blog in an Old Space; Also, Washing Dishes Like A True Heroine

Well, it’s obvious that this blog in its present format has been more or less squeezed out of my life. I’ve become actually busy, something I thought would never happen to someone like me.
Normally what would happen at this point is that I’d shut the blog down and then months from now when I became [...]

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Babies Going to the Chiropractor

Here’s Nicole Hoelscher Harms’ full story of a Chiropractor solving colic. Nicole is a friend and a published author of articles.
I would only add that if you are taking your child to the chiropractor it’s well to find one who has some training on the gentler techniques needed for children.
The last few days have been rough. [...]

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1989 On Ritalin

There’s a reason why Jannette, aged 34, sat in a school nurse’s office and morally crumbled to pieces. Janette suffered from a poor relationship with her mother.
Her mother had never thought of herself as controlling. She was simply a woman of conviction. And when Janette reflexively gave way every time Mom forgot to stop talking – which was fairly [...]

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The Cop and the Maiden (In Progress)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Fable: Ancient Christianity and America

A philanthropist was walking on the sidewalk and met a fool going along in a weelchair.
“How did you become crippled?” he asked.
“I loved a girl, and wanted to win her heart. So I bought a weelchair like the one her crippled father uses, and I always went about in it, so that I would feel familiar to her.”
“How [...]

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Poem XX: Willoware Land

Passing into the Willow Ware
Is something one doesn’t often dare;
But when you arrive in Willowareland
Be sure to wield a steady hand.
O deep blue shadows and shallow white light;
The shores of Willowareland by night!
Shores where you battle the Willoware Dragon
In quest of the fabled Willoware Flagon,
While from pearly trees float the savage cries
Of the Willoware Boy to him who tries:
“Rally from foliage; [...]

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Synopsis of “Aleth and the Six-Legged Serpent”

The relationship between ten-year-old reptile enthusiast, Aleth, and her scheming guardian, Hannadrasp, becomes dangerous when Hannadrasp tricks Aleth into stirring up a Dragon. Unaware of Hannadrasp’s secret purpose, Aleth tries to atone for the destruction her mistake has loosed upon the town of Mirrogarden.

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On the eve of her tenth birthday, Aleth is lizard-hunting with her friend Werner when a [...]

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A Rather Quirky Story About A Vicious Rooster, In Which I Poke A Bit of Fun at My Own Kind

Well, we are a very Normal family. We always have been, and we like it that way. That’s why we can’t stand the people across the street, who are not Normal at all.

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Evil Editor “Overlord” Entry

I whipped this up last night as an entry for Evil Editor’s latest writing excercise. Thought I might as well post it here as I have nothing else at the moment.
The theme is “300-word scene from end of evil overlord novel involving someone gloating over his own brilliance only to look like an idiot moments [...]

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Well Stars: Installment III

People noticed as the four friends became regular in one another’s company, and the Lower Salon Gaurds took every opportunity to stare suspiciously at their tightly-wrapped clothing for any tell-tale swellings of flesh.
Cyrulla was becoming almost ungovernably irritable at home, but took care to hide the fact from Hugo, who was giddy. Maerion felt that [...]

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Well-Stars: The Second Installment

Cyrulla murmured “What is it, Maerion?”
Maerion answered as quietly: “I felt that I saw into the future, and knew that none of us would ever be this happy again.”
The boy raised his thoughtful eyes to the horizon outside the open door, but the gazes of Cyrulla and Perspice flew to the Balcony in the Upper Salon where [...]

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